Very impressive. The primary function of intelligence is the subordination of our
instinctive desires, the mark of a strong species. Which is why your kind will
serve well the needs of the Hindmost Creche. The Hindmost is of an intelligence
so vast, it encompasses the span of the Pfhor, and to those privilege to serve
Her, appears insane. That is the final function of the Commanding Rank, the
thought that we keep forever in our minds, that we deny our selfish, willful
needs, so that the Empire will survive.

The humans are escaping through the cone of the volcano, where they have activated
containment fields to suppress the lava floe. I want nothing more than to cut them
off so they can be captured, for long, useful lives in the conditioned ranks.

The containment fields are powered by multiple, redundant sources throughout the
cone. You will have to deactivate them all.